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November 09, 2017 - Study Design
KQ 1: Randomized or clinical controlled trials, systematic reviews, before-after studies … , observational cohort studies, and ecologic studies with a historical or geographic comparator
KQs … 2–4: All of the above plus cohort studies, case series, and registry data
KQs 3, 4: Trials examining … Poor-quality studies
Publication Dates
1986 to the present
Studies conducted prior to the … Several comments suggested including studies examining the benefits and harms of specific treatment or
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August 25, 2016 - of diagnostic accuracy are also eligible
KQs 3, 5: Cohort studies with a concurrent control group … reviews c
Quality
Studies rated good or fair quality
Studies rated poor quality
Settings … of diagnostic accuracy are also eligible
KQs 3, 5: Cohort studies with a concurrent control group … reviews c
Quality
Studies rated good or fair quality
Studies rated poor quality
Settings … The USPSTF clarified that studies enrolling older adults that focused on screening for or treatment of
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October 25, 2016 - Thirty-one studies were newly identified, and 21 studies were carried forward from the previous review … included poor-quality studies). … Consistent
High applicability for studies of policy changes (3 studies). … Moderate applicability for studies of maintaining mother-baby contact following delivery (3 studies). … Low applicability for studies of restricted pacifier use (3 studies).
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January 03, 2017 - Evidence was obtained from 2 systematic
reviews and 19 additional studies.1 Most studies evaluated type … The USPSTF reviewed evidence
from 3 studies (n = 160) on type II portable monitors, 21 studies
(n = 1691 … Few studies reported on the effect of treatment with
MADs (6 studies; n = 510) or upper airway surgery … (4 studies;
n = 187) on any health outcomes. … Fewer studies reported on the harms of treatment.
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November 15, 2012 - Limitations: Modeling studies were not examined. … For screening, we included randomized trials, cohort studies, case–control studies, and cross-sectional … , consistency between studies, precision of estimates, and directness of evidence. … No evidence
No studies
No studies
No studies
No studies
No studies
No study compared clinical … No evidence
No studies
No studies
No studies
No studies
No studies
No study compared clinical
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May 27, 2014 - , n
Reference
HR (95% CI)
Studies, n
Reference
HR (95% CI)
Studies, n
Reference
HR … 10 observational studies
Patient characteristics and outcomes evaluated varied greatly; no studies … ), wrong intervention (200 studies), wrong outcome (83 studies), wrong study design for key question … (83 studies), wrong publication type (41 studies), wrong comparison (59 studies), or duplicate reporting … of data (13 studies). 45 studies, reported in 46 publications, were included in the report.
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February 15, 2006 - Summary of Studies of Risk Factors
Table 3. Instruments Used In Studies
Table 4. … Nine studies conducted in English speaking populations, 36-44 and 7 studies from non-English speaking … All studies tested expressive and/or receptive language. 11 , 53 , 54 , 63-68 In addition, 3 studies … A Cochrane systematic review of 45 studies, including most of the studies cited above, summarized the … No studies addressed this question.
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April 01, 2004 - None of the studies
used an intent-to-treat analysis; in most studies,
subjects were excluded from the … (3 studies)
Kay, 199651
OHE,
37 studies
Knowledge levels are
consistently raised by
interventions … (4 studies)
Sprod, 199652
OHP,
70 studies
Knowledge can be
easily improved using
many approaches … (NR)
Very few studies,
little evidence of
long-term gain. … The existing studies constitute only fair evidence,
represent efficacy studies, and were all performed
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan/cognitive-impairment-in-older-adults-screening
October 19, 2017 - Evidence-based Practice Center will use to search for publications and to determine whether identified studies … some responsibility for the care of the patient, such as a spouse, partner, relative, or friend
Studies … KQs 1, 4: Observational studies
KQ 2: Case-control studies
KQ 3, 5: Case series, case reports … KQ 5: Cohort or case-control studies with <1,000 participants
Publication language
English … Languages other than English
Study quality
Fair- or good-quality studies
Poor-quality studies
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April 13, 2015 - 6 studies of lifestyle interventions and 8 studies of pharmacologic interventions found some evidence … (in 3 publications) for Key Question 1; 3 studies for Key Question 2; 13 studies (in 16 publications … ) for Key Question 3; 9 studies (in 11 publications) for Key Question 4; 3 studies (in 6 publications … Nonfatal MI: 5 studies; 0.85, 0.76 to 0.95; I 2 =0%
Severe hypoglycemia: 5 studies; 2.39, 1.79 … : 9 studies; 2.39, 1.71 to 3.34; I 2 =73%
Wu, 2010 62
6 studies; 0.95, 0.80 to 1.12
5 studies
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May 01, 1993 - John Ewing, founding Director of the Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies,
University of North Carolina … The exact wording that can be used in research studies can be found in: JA Ewing “Detecting
Alcoholism … Researchers and clinicians
who are publishing studies using the CAGE Questionaire should cite the above … John Ewing, founding Director of the Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, University of North
Carolina … John Ewing, founding Director of the Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies,
University of North Carolina
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/vision-in-children-ages-6-months-to-5-years-screening
September 05, 2017 - studies or case-control studies assessing harms. … However, unlike studies of photoscreeners, most studies of clinical test accuracy did not enroll children … Two studies were included for key question 1; 34 studies were included for key question 2; 17 studies … were included for key question 3; 3 studies were included for key question 4; and 3 studies were included … Low
Most studies of clinical tests did not include children <3 y; however most studies of photoscreeners
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May 15, 2004 - All studies were reviewed, but only studies with control groups were rated in quality since these would … For completeness, all studies are described in the tables; however, only studies rated of fair or better … In addition, 6 case-control studies, 41-46 1 non-RCT 47 and 4 older cohort studies ( Appendix Table … Case-Control Studies
Five fair-quality case-control studies were conducted in Japan between 1992 and … studies
cohort studies
longitudinal studies
followup studies
prospective studies
cross-sectional
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February 01, 2016 - , and trials and large cohort
studies for harms. … of screening for MDD, and
cohort studies with at least 1000 participants for studies
of screening and … The studies included in the 2009 review,
when re-reviewed against our criteria, yielded 5 studies
on … Accuracy of Screening Instruments
Five fair-quality studies included in the 2009 re-
view, but no studies … We
found no new eligible screening studies.
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/depression-in-children-and-adolescents-screening
February 08, 2016 - of screening for MDD, and cohort studies with at least 1000 participants for studies of screening and … Accuracy of Screening Instruments
Five fair-quality studies included in the 2009 review, but no studies … We found no new eligible screening studies. … Studies were published since May 2007. … Six articles representing 5 studies are included in this report’s qualitative synthesis and 2 studies
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April 17, 2018 - Three studies included tai chi, and 5 studies included general physi-
cal activity. … In studies, nursing staff usually performed the assessment,
Figure 1. … Three studies were conducted in the United States, 1 study
in the United Kingdom, 8 studies in other … Three studies were conducted in the United States;
the remaining studies were conducted in the United … Studies found reductions across sev-
eral fall-related outcomes.
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January 11, 2016 - Studies most clinically relevant to practice in the United States were selected over studies that were … designed as RCTs, cohort studies, case–control studies, and systematic reviews; criteria to rate other … Observational Studies
Three good-quality systematic reviews of observational studies of screening were … A meta-analysis of case–control studies 33 indicated an odds ratio of 0.69 (CI, 0.57 to 0.83) (7 studies … based on 7 case-control studies.
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February 01, 2014 - and
consistency of results between studies (28). … No studies
described adverse effects of the risk models. … Few studies described adverse effects. … Studies were descriptive and
lacked important outcomes, and the few available studies
had small numbers … Adverse effects of genetic
testing
13 studies of distress Cohort,
case–control,
pre–post
No studies
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December 22, 2014 - referenced studies. … The largest number (16 studies) reported results for a 5-year interval, and only 2 studies provided data … Included studies were conducted in Asia (19 studies), the United States (8 studies), Europe (10 studies … All studies were done in the United States. … , %
Studies,
n
Partici-pants, n
Weighted
Mean
Incidence, %
Studies,
n
Partici-pants
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July 01, 2013 - We included studies if they were
randomized, controlled trials (RCTs) or non-RCTs or co-
hort studies … We included only studies
published in English. … Most studies were conducted in
North America or Australia. … We included
cohort studies because an earlier review (5) found few
RCTs; results from cohort studies … /
94. follow-up studies/
95. longitudinal studies/
96. prospective studies/
97. retrospective studies